diff --git a/lang/perl/perl-http-date/Makefile b/lang/perl/perl-http-date/Makefile
index 916a0b86cd..3f3390b576 100644
--- a/lang/perl/perl-http-date/Makefile
+++ b/lang/perl/perl-http-date/Makefile
@@ -1,48 +1,45 @@
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2015 OpenWrt.org
-#
-# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
-# See /LICENSE for more information.
-#
-
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=perl-http-date
-PKG_VERSION:=6.05
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_VERSION:=6.06
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
-PKG_SOURCE:=HTTP-Date-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
-PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/O/OA/OALDERS
-PKG_HASH:=365d6294dfbd37ebc51def8b65b81eb79b3934ecbc95a2ec2d4d827efe6a922b
-PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/perl/HTTP-Date-$(PKG_VERSION)
+METACPAN_NAME:=HTTP-Date
+METACPAN_AUTHOR:=OALDERS
+PKG_HASH:=7b685191c6acc3e773d1fc02c95ee1f9fae94f77783175f5e78c181cc92d2b52
 
-PKG_MAINTAINER:=Marcel Denia <naoir@gmx.net>
+PKG_MAINTAINER:=Jens Wagner <jens@wagner2013.de>
 PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-1.0-or-later Artistic-1.0-Perl
 PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=LICENSE
 
+include ../metacpan.mk
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
-include ../perl/perlmod.mk
+include ../perlmod.mk
 
 define Package/perl-http-date
   SUBMENU:=Perl
   SECTION:=lang
   CATEGORY:=Languages
   TITLE:=Date conversion routines
-  URL:=http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Date/
+  URL:=https://metacpan.org/pod/HTTP::Date
   DEPENDS:=perl +perlbase-essential +perlbase-time
 endef
 
+define Package/perl-http-date/description
+  This module provides functions that deal the date formats
+  used by the HTTP protocol.
+endef
+
 define Build/Configure
-        $(call perlmod/Configure,,)
+    $(call perlmod/Configure,,)
 endef
 
 define Build/Compile
-        $(call perlmod/Compile,,)
+    $(call perlmod/Compile,,)
 endef
 
 define Package/perl-http-date/install
-        $(call perlmod/Install,$(1),HTTP auto/HTTP)
+    $(call perlmod/Install,$(1),HTTP)
 endef
 
-
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,perl-http-date))